Ruskin, John - Brunswick Square Claimed

John Ruskin was born 8 February 1819.

He was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, water colourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote ‘Letters to a College Friend’ between 1840 and 1844, Modern Painters 5 vols. (1843–60), The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), The Stones of Venice 3 vols. (1851–53), Unto This Last (1860, 1862), Fors Clavigera (1871–84), Praeterita 3 vols. (1885–89).

He died 20 January 1900 aged 80 at Coniston in Cumbria.